Quotes Flashcards
Ozymandias
‘Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert’
London
‘Mind forged manacles i hear’
‘Chimney-sweepers cry’
Extract from, the prelude
‘The horizon’s bound, a huge peak, black and huge’
My Last Duchess
‘Looking as if she were alive’
‘My gift of a nine hundred year old name’
The Charge of the Light Brigade
‘Cannon to the right of them,
Cannon to the left of them,
Cannon in front of them’
‘Rode the six hundred’
Exposure
‘Winds that knive us’
‘But nothing happens’
Storm on the island
‘Spits like a tame cat turned savage’
‘It is a huge nothing that we fear’
Bayonet charge
‘Suddenly he awoke and was running’
‘Bullets smacking the belly out of the air’
Remains
‘Probably armed, possibly not’
‘End of story, except not really’
Poppies
‘Sellotape bandage around my hand’
‘I wanted to graze my nose across the tip of your nose’
War photographer
‘Running children in a nightmare heat’
‘A hundred agonies in black and white’
Tissue
‘let the day light break through capitals and monoliths’
‘Turned into your skin’
The Emigrée
‘There once was a country… I left it as a child but my memory of it is sunlight-clear’
‘The white streets of that city’
Cheking out me history
‘Dem tell me dem tell me wha dem want to tell me’
‘But now i checking out me own history’
Kamikaze
‘was no longer the father we loved’
‘One-way journey into history’
